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Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO (4 October 1872 – 26 December 1945) was a British naval officer. As a junior officer he served in a corvette operating from Zanzibar on slavery suppression missions.
Baron Keyes GCB KCVO CMG DSO (* 4. Oktober 1872 in Punjab, Britisch-Indien; † 26. Dezember 1945 in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England) war ein britischer Flottenadmiral der Royal Navy sowie Politiker der Conservative Party, der von 1934 bis 1943 den Wahlkreis Portsmouth North als Mitglied im House of Commons vertrat.
Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes was a British admiral who planned and directed the World War I raid on the German base at Zeebrugge, Belg., April 22–23, 1918, and thus helped to close the Strait of Dover to German submarines. Keyes entered the Royal Navy in 1885. For bold action during.
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Learn about the life and career of Roger Keyes, a prominent admiral who participated in the Dardanelles-Gallipoli campaign and the blocking operations in the Channel ports. Find out his achievements, controversies, and legacy in the First World War and beyond.
Liste der Barone Keyes (1943) Roger Keyes, 1. Baron Keyes (1872–1945) Roger Keyes, 2. Baron Keyes (1919–2005) Charles Keyes, 3. Baron Keyes (* 1951) Titelerbe (Heir Presumptive) ist der jüngere Bruder des aktuellen Titelinhabers, Hon. Leopold Keyes (* 1956). Einzelnachweise
7. Apr. 2022 · Portrait: © National Portrait Gallery, London. Admiral of the Fleet T HE RIGHT HONOURABLE Roger John Brownlow Keyes, First Baron Keyes, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal Navy (4 October, 1872 – 26 December, 1945) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the Great War and the Second World War.
Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Roger Keyes, served as the First Director of Combined Operations from July 1940 to October 1941, when he stepped down because his redefined role, at the head of the Combined Operations Command, reduced the status and power of the post he originally accepted and developed.
